Note that, although some of these shows give plenty of useful information, watching one is less effective than reading a newspaper, a warning which Jon Stewart in particular works hard to make clear. Whether watching the "real" news shows that these shows parody is effective at all is more debatable.

A variation is the Faux News show or sketch, which satirizes elements of legitimate news shows but doesn't use factual information. The best examples are the British radio show On the Hour and its TV adaptation, The Day Today, both of which feature writing and acting by Patrick Marber, who was later nominated for an Oscar for Notes on a Scandal. The Day Today had its own spin-off, Brass Eye, which spoofed the Prime Time News format. The most famous Faux News outlet in the US, on the other hand, is not on television: it's The Onion (which uses a mix of real and imaginary events), which has spread its tentacles to the Internet and other areas, as well.

And on the French side of Canada, La Fin du Monde est a Sept Heures ("The end of the world is at seven o'clock"), and Infoman have trended toward this at times (at other times trending toward light-hearted humorous commentary on the news, musical numbers, or out-and-out silliness).

CBC's This Is That, a parody of CBC's current issues interview shows, like As It Happens. It features discussion of fictional current affairs along with outraged listeners calling in.

The Half Hour News Hour was Fox News Channel's attempt to counter The Daily Show's perceived liberal bias with an explicit conservative bias. The show tanked and was canceled after a few months.

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld (The Fox News Channel's much more successful comedy offering. Hovers between News Parody, Faux News, and Fake Pundit Show [because it's like The View, if The View had a decidedly pro-Camp Gay bias]. Dissimile and absurdist tangents abound.).

Broken News does the Faux News variant, cutting between snippets of different styles of news show, such as "Look Out East" spoofing BBC local news broadcasts, a BBC News parody with presenters who keep interrupting each other, an ITV News parody skewering the channel's overuse of flashy graphics, an American network news parody that's usually oblivious to what's going on in the rest of the episode (and features Claudia Christian as one of the hosts), and several others, and frequently cuts between the various sub-shows in mid-sentence in a way that's supposed to represent a bored viewer flicking between channels. It's the Spiritual Successor to The Sunday Format, a radio series by the same writers that does much the same with newspapers.

Have I Got News for You is considered to be the quintessential British version. It's more of a quiz/panel show than a News Parody, although there's plenty of fun-making about the news.

BBC radio also provides the much more straightfoward News Parody The Now Show, where Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt and rotating guests (special or otherwise) thoroughly mock a news story of their choice. There is frequently, but not always, a musical segment.

Les Guignols de l'info is a French version of this trope using puppets. It airs at 8PM (the time of real news) and the anchor is based upon a real news anchor who worked for years on another channel.

Another French version: various incarnations of satirical show Groland (especially the earliest ones) took the form of fake news shows.

The Italian version is "Striscia la Notizia", a daily news parody who nonetheless manages to make also very serious points, exposing local cases of corruption and frauds which usually don't appear on the "real" news programs.

The news section of Top Gear, introduced initially as a three-presenters-on-furniture-scavenged-from-cars way to mention "boring but important cars" quickly. Has expanded somewhat to include car news, politics as it relates to driving, and the presenters poking fun at each other whenever possible.

The Headlies section of WrestleCrap, in a parody of less reputable Wrestling Newz sites.

Studio 3 has a kids' version in one of its regular segments, where it's two young hosts act as decrepit, old-fashioned news presenters.

The Jeselnik Offensive, a verydarkComedy Central show hosted by infamously harsh comedian Anthony Jeselnik, which is mostly dedicated to mocking deaths and other tragedies from the news.

The Philippines had the Sic O' Clock News and Wazzup Wazzup.

Indian news/media commentary portal Newslaundry has a series known as Clothesline, where the anchor, veteran journalist Madhu Trehan does this for news media, mostly television, crossing over with MST, by adding her own commentary. A more actual news parody is the series Newslaundry Lite.

The Israeli Eretz Nehederet runs almost entirely on this format, alternating between mocking remarks about recent events in the style of Seth Myers on Saturday Night Live,note The show was clearly influenced by SNL in general. interviews with actors playing public figures, and skits in the formats of news reports.

The Argentine show Caiga Quien Caiga (lit. "Whoever May Fall"), commonly shorthanded to CQC. Among other countries to which the format was imported, it is also very popular in Spain and Brazil (where the acronym stands for Custe o Que Custar, i.e. "Whatever It Takes").

Mexican comedy/satire website El Deforma. They have a seccion for fake-sounding-but-actually-real news with a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer specifically so they are not confused with its actual humor content.

The most recent evolution of the News Parody is the Fake Pundit Show, which parodies the political Talk Show:

Crossballs—a short-lived Comedy Central show that was a portmanteau of CNN's (now-defunct) Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball. Often pairing up a revolving cast of comedians with actual experts as they argued with each other on the topic at hand.

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